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End of an era: Best Buy stops selling CDs
As sales of physical audio records have plummeted over the past decade, Best Buy did draw up its its conclusions and decided to stop selling CDs altogether in 2018.
Finnish court: Pirate Bay founders must pay over 400'000 euros to copyright owners
In Finland, the Helsinki district court has ruled that two of the three founders of The Pirate Bay must pay over 400'000 euros to music industry ......
Music industry unimpressed with $1 billion revenue from YouTube
YouTube has paid over $1 billion to the music industry from advertising revenue, and that is apparently not enough!
Music industry is once again worried about "ripping"
Music industry, like many others, are slow to adapt and because of that slow adaption they've had to come up with all kinds of reasons to why ......
YouTube is 'The Devil', says manager of Metallica, Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more
Peter Mensch, who has managed many huge acts including Metallica, Muse, Snow Patrol and more, described YouTube as 'the devil' to BBC Radio Four.
Music industry back from a 20 year slump, still blames YouTube
As many of you know, the music industry, just like Hollywood, loves to play the blame game. Whether it's Napster or Spotify, the new technologies ......
Record labels target social network for piracy
Record labels are targeting the so called 'Facebook of Russia' with a legal case over alleged large-scale copyright infringement by the service.
R.I.P Demonoid as domain names go up for sale
It is now light's out for Demonoid.
After being taken down last week in the Ukraine, all of the major Demonoid domains are now up for sale, ......
Record Industry welcomes EU changes to copyright term
Copyright protection extended in European Union from 50, to 70 years.
The Directive extends the term of protection for performance and producers ......
PayPal joins IFPI in effort to shut down illegal music sites
PayPal UK has announced today they have joined with the IFPI and the City Of London Police in an effort to "starve" websites which make money ......
The Pirate Bay's "Music Bay" is 'coming soon'
A few years ago, the infamous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay registered The Music Bay domain, but did nothing with it.
It appears now, however, ......